Compositor&#39;s type-stick.



No. 708.646. Patented Sept. 9, I902.

L. K. JOHNSON. c'omPoslTons TYPE STICK.

(Apphcatwn filed Ma. 18 1901 I (No Model.)

sswsx U ITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LOUIS KOSSUTH JOHNSON, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO ALDEN TYPE MACHINE COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

COMPOSITORS TYPE-STICK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 708,646, dated September 9, 1902.

Application filed March 18, 1901.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LOUIS KOSSUTH J OHN- SON, a citizen of the United States, residing, in the city of New York, borough of Brooklyn, county of Kings, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Compositors Type-Sticks, of which the following is a specification sufficient to enable others skilled in the art to which the invention appertains to-make and use the same.

My improvements relate to compositors type-sticks, and are designed to facilitate the removal of the types from the stick to a galley or elsewhere.

The invention consists, primarily, in making the front wall or flange movablev or removable, so that it may be withdrawn from in-front of the type composition to allow the same to be pushed bodily ofi the bottom plate without being lifted therefrom, as has heretofore been necessary, and, secondarily, in certain special features of construction hereinafter described and claimed more specifically.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a top view of my improved stick; Fig. 2, a like view with the front plate removed; Fig. 3, a rear edge view of the stick; Fig. t, a sectional elevation upon plane of line 4 4, Fig. 1; Fig. 5, atransverse section upon plane of line 5 5, Fig. 1. Fig. 6 is a View of the removable front plate.

A represents the floor or plate of the stick, formed at one end with the usual abutment a. The front flange 13 consists of a strip of metal or other suitable material supported adjustably upon the plate A. This is preferably accomplished by means of uprights a (1 which support the front edge of the plate A, as shown in the drawings, or any other mechanical expedient may be resorted to for holding the flange B in place.

The adjustable abutment O, which has heretofore been secured to the rear of the front plate of the stick, in this case is formed with an Serial No. 51,586. (No modelJ' overlapping clasp c, which straddles the upper edge of the movable flange B. The adjustable abutment O is held in place by a clamp 0', being pivotally connected to the rear end of the abutment O and extending down to the plate A. The elasticity of the metal of which the clamp c is composed may be relied upon to create sufficient frictional contact with the under side of the plate A to prevent the movement of the abutment; but I prefer to render the device positive by the use of a set-screw 0 as shown in Figs. 3 and 4.

In use when it is desired to transfer the types T from the stick to the floor of a galley or other device the front flange B is withdrawn, so that the types may he slid off the front end of the plate. Heretofore it has been necessary to lift them out of the stick, and there has been much loss of time and labor by reason of the pieing of the type.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a compositors type-stick, the combination of the type-plate A, and abutment a, the adjustable abutment 0, formed with means for holding it in position upon the plate A, and the movable front flange B, supported adj ustably upon said plate, for the purpose set forth.

2. A compositors type-stick formed with a movable front flange substantiallyin the manner and for the purpose set forth.

3. In a compositors type-stick the combination with the plate A, and abutment a, and With the movable front flange B, of the adjustable abutment 0, formed with the clasp c, to straddle the upper edge. of the front flange B, said abutment 0, being also formed with means by which it may be held stationary upon the plate A, substantially in the manner and for the purpose set forth.

LOUIS KOSSUTH JOHNSON.

Witnesses:

D. W. GARDNER, JAMES A. WILSON. 

